Scheduled SMS Text Message

Schedule SMS. Plan your future SMS texts to be always on time. Being able to plan your campaigns ahead is a great advantage and a huge time-saver. We value your time as much as you do, that’s why you can schedule your SMS messages – define sending date and we’ll deliver your messages exactly when you want to.

This feature is perfect for when you know you will not be at your desk when an SMS message needs to go out. You can schedule your SMS text messages to be sent at a future date and time.

It can be used to set up a reminder message the day before an appointment, meeting or event. It can be used to tell customers about a one day only special. You can even schedule SMS messages to go out to yourself, to remind you of any events, meetings or what groceries you need to pick up at the end of the day.

Reasons you should schedule your sends

Life is busy. Work is busy. And things always have a habit of cropping up at the last minute and disturbing you and your plans.

Well with our schedule send tool, these fears and worries are eliminated, allowing you to plan, test and take your time with your mobile marketing campaign.

So scheduling your daily, weekly or monthly sends can really help plan your work load. Here are just 5 reasons why you should be scheduling your sends.

1. Planning
By scheduling your sends you can effectively plan your day, week, or month depending on how many campaigns you are scheduling. So you wouldn't miss out on a very important occassion.

2. Get it ticked off the list
We all have a pile of work on our desk and an over flowing to-do list, so scheduling your campaigns means that you can effectively tick it off the list and know that it will be sent out without fear of you forgetting or getting dragged into other tasks. This definitely will make you appear reliable before your relations and colleagues

3. Send out of your work hours
With schedule sending you don’t have to be restricted to your work hours, for example some retailers are finding success and joy by sending marketing campaigns in the early evening and at weekends.

4. No rushing, no mistakes
By taking your time and testing, you will send a message campaign with no mistakes and exactly when you want. Leaving it until the last minute, only means that you will rush it and encourage mistakes.

5. Prepare for the response
Sending out mobile marketing campaigns can generate huge response rates, we have heard of websites crashing, phone lines blocked with calls and stores almost becoming one in and one out. So by scheduling your messages and letting all your team know when it will go out, you can all prepare for the huge response – you can also spread your send to ease the response.

6. Reach Group of People once

You can reach many people at a specific and programmed time.

7. Avoids failure and its attendant consequencies.
It eliminates unnecessary problems you face whenever you miss to send a compulsory message

If you have any questions or need any help then please don’t hesitate to ask – we are always here to help.

Type. Choose the Type of message you want to send (usually leave as default in Normal SMS)

Paste Recipient Phone Numbers. Enter receipient phone numbers in the format: +234809502999 (works for Nigeria and International) or 08095029999 (Nigeria only)
3b. Or Select File: (.csv, .xls, .xlsx, .vcf or .txt). If it's bullk message you can use any of the file format (.csv, .xls, .xlsx, .vcf or .txt) to upload and send message. Sample format is available for your guide.

Future Date-time. Enter the details in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm am. For example this can be 2017-09-16 03:30 pmOptional: If you will need to send another message to the contacts in the future, you can tick the box save these numbers.

Add Receipient Contact: A drop down menu will open, then enter the contact phone numbers in the format: +234809502999 (works for Nigeria and International) or 08095029999 (Nigeria only)

OR Upload Recipients List (.csv, .xls, .xlsx, .vcf, .json or .txt): If it's bullk message you can use any of the file format (.csv, .xls, .xlsx, .vcf or .txt) to upload and send message. Sample format is available for your guide.

Save Contacts To Group: If you want the contact details to be added to an existing group of contacts in your contact list, enter the group name here. Alternatively, enter a new group name to save it on a list.

Also send to ALL numbers from these contact groups. When you have other group of people you want to copy in the message, tick the group name to add them to the list.

Then click Proceed. To move to the next step.

STEP 3

Message Category. This is where you categorise the message type and contents. For example a corporate organisation can have a category/Message template for: Meeting Invitation, Birthday Congratulatory message, Management Meeting etc. The message will be created and saved. If you don't find it, you can Add new Template easily with the link on the page.

Choose SMS Template. Type some keyword or suggestion of your preffered template and samples will come up for you to select from.

Then click Proceed. To move to the next step.

STEP 4

It's not compulsory that every menu here has to be entered, some can be left as they are in default menu if they are not relevant.

Hour. Enter the hour you want the message to be delivered. Message is every 24 hours, so if you want to send the SMS by 6pm, just enter 18.

Choose On if it's once the message should be sent or Every if you want it to be sent continuously on that hour.

Day of the month. Select the Date you want the message to be delivered, e.g 11, means 11 Day of the month.

Choose On if it's once the message should be sent or Every if you want it to be sent continuously on that Day.

Month. Select the month of the year you want, e.g 11 means November.

Choose On if it's once the message should be sent or Every if you want it to be sent continuously on that Month.

Weekday. The day of the week the message is to be delivered, e.g 3 means Tuesday.

Choose On if it's once the message should be sent or Every if you want it to be sent continuously on that weekdayWeek of the month. Enables you set the week of the month the message is to be entered, e.g 2 means every 2 weeks in the month the message should be sent.

Meaning of current settings. Explains the meaning of the setting you have entered.